Gimell Records was founded in 1980 solely to make and release recordings by The Tallis Scholars.

Through their award-winning recordings and in over 2,300 concerts Peter Phillips and The Tallis Scholars have done more than any other group to establish the sacred vocal music of the Renaissance as one of the great repertoires of Western classical music.

All our recordings are available on Apple Music, iTunes, CD, and Download. A selection of our recordings are available on Spotify and most other streaming services.

To mark the 40th Anniversary of Gimell's first recording session, the album featuring The Tallis Scholars' famous recording of Allegri's Miserere, made on 22nd March 1980, has been specially re-mastered and is now available in High Resolution.

"With Missa Mater Patris and Missa Da pacem our project to record all of Josquin's masses runs into controversy. Who wrote these pieces, and when? In the case of one of Josquin's greatest compositions, Missa Mater Patris, its style is so unusual that some scholars have questioned its authorship. With Missa Da pacem these questions become more pressing. Thought during the 19th century to be the most typical and perfect of all Josquin’s masses, it has recently been shown to be written by the little-known Noel Bauldeweyn. Or is it?" Peter Phillips

This is the seventh of nine albums in The Tallis Scholars' project to record all of Josquin's masses before the composer's 500th Anniversary in 2021.

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"What attracts me most about these two Masses is how the same composer could produce such different and yet compelling sound worlds: the one intensely worked, the other joyful, bright, easy-going. It might be wondered if the same man could write so diversely – I say genius on this scale knows no rules."

The Tallis Scholars sixth release in their planned complete cycle of Josquin's masses, features Missa Di dadi and Missa Une mousse de Biscaye. Please play the video to hear an excerpt from the Missa Di dadi.

This specially-priced double album features our famous 1986 recording of Tallis's extraordinary motet for 40 voices, Spem in alium. In recent years our recording gained further popularity when it was featured on the BBC Radio 4 series, Soul Music, and it topped the Classical charts when Spem in alium was featured in Fifty Shades of Grey by E L James.

This specially-priced double album was released to celebrate The Tallis Scholars 2000th concert.

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"When I conducted my first concert with The Tallis Scholars in 1973 I could not have imagined that we would go on to perform concerts all around the world, or that millions of people would regularly listen to our recordings. We have had the happy chance to explore deep into Renaissance polyphony: here are some of the gems that have thrilled me over the years."